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ash briers
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Username: s2hsr
Post Number: 34
Registered: 5-2008
| | Posted on Friday, August 1, 2008 - 9:31 am: | 
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hi, does anyone know where to get a picture of the lusitania's vents that looked like barrels with lids? |
ash briers
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Username: s2hsr
Post Number: 35
Registered: 5-2008
| | Posted on Friday, August 1, 2008 - 10:25 am: |
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like this  |
Russell Smith
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Username: colonialmarine0431
Post Number: 58
Registered: 7-2008
| | Posted on Friday, August 1, 2008 - 7:26 pm: |
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Bad design though. They were continually having to be repaired. They just could'nt handle those North Atlantic gales.
CQD...er...I mean SOS ...---...
41° 46' N, 50° 14' W
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Stan Brewer
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Username: brewers_2150
Post Number: 3
Registered: 6-2009
| | Posted on Saturday, June 13, 2009 - 11:34 pm: |
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What color were the vents?
Stan |
Evgueni Mlodik
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Username: emlodik
Post Number: 247
Registered: 5-2009
| | Posted on Sunday, June 14, 2009 - 11:25 am: |
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I could be wrong, but I think they were either dark brown or black. |
Martin Owen Cahill
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Username: martin
Post Number: 624
Registered: 5-2002
| | Posted on Monday, June 15, 2009 - 11:55 am: |
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Right first time. and interior is similar to the funnel and bit redder.
If you have or can get a copy of Dr Ballard's book Exploring the Lusitania, of his 1993 mission.
Anything by Ken Marschall is a good starting point.
"No Sir, We just hit the cruiser"
helmsman on Queen Mary
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Martin Owen Cahill
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Username: martin
Post Number: 625
Registered: 5-2002
| | Posted on Monday, June 15, 2009 - 1:00 pm: |
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Russell, Just imagine the boiler room with rain and sea spray coming down into the stokehold when the lids came off. This happening spectaularly when a huge wave hit the ship in January 1910. They probably couldn't see for the steam.
"No Sir, We just hit the cruiser"
helmsman on Queen Mary
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